Featured Projects

The Welcome Pavilion of the new Milton & Catherine Hershey Conservatory at Hershey Gardens is one of the first thing visitors see as they drive up to the popular southeastern Pennsylvania attraction. The Pavilion’s most prominent feature is a new curved metal roof from Drexel Metals, which almost seems to crown the new conservatory.

It’s a rare occasion when a newly constructed building is partially disassembled upon completion, but that is exactly what happened at the American Airlines Training & Conference Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Not long after expansion construction was completed, a section of Green Span Profiles insulated metal panels was removed to accommodate the installation of eight different full-size flight simulators.

The City of Myrtle Beach was looking for an efficient method of dealing with some moisture and insulation issues at the indoor pool of the Pepper Geddings Recreation Center. Metl-Span’s Mesa insulated metal panel was chosen to solve the problems quickly and cost-effectively.

Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) launched the latest addition to their Kansas City, MO-based offices - the Safety And Training Center - in late 2015. Featuring a variety of metal products from CENTRIA, the two-story, 53,000 sq. ft. facility provides a world-class education center for KCP&L’s linemen and apprentices.

The Lebanon Municipal Service Facility in Lebanon, OH consists of three custom-engineered metal buildings by Star Building Systems that total 33,000 sq. ft. The project was started in August 2014 and completed in April 2015.

A church in Dundee, Ohio is now covered with a new metal roof formed from steel by Coated Metals Group (CMG) after its old, deteriorating shingle roof was on the verge of causing structural damage to the building.

The contemporary new home of Glidewell Investments & Insurance Group in Missoula, MT barely resembles the 1960’s concrete block structure that preceded it. Part of the success of its dramatic transformation lies in the decision to clad the original facade with Flat Lock Tiles in a prePATINA graphite-grey finish from RHEINZINK America.

With much fanfare, the $507 million Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento, CA recently opened. While the venue is designed to host concerts and conventions, it will be known first and foremost as the home arena of the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings.The arena is state of the art in every way, including its incorporation of enormous, glass-paneled bifold doors from Schweiss Doors.

The new Cape Canaveral Fire and Rescue facility in Florida is a far cry from the previous station that was built by volunteers in 1962, which had become outdated and inefficient. The modern station - featuring aluminum roofing from Petersen - is now home to 15 volunteers and 35 paid personnel, and is designed to effectively serve the City of Cape Canaveral, Port Canaveral and Avon By The Sea.

More than a decade in the making and heralded as an innovative step forward, the new Butler Tech Bioscience Center in West Chester, OH is envisioned to be an educational facility in a business campus setting, providing students with educational and employment opportunities side-by-side. The classroom building is clad with a rainscreen wall system featuring ALPOLIC ACM panels finished with red Valspar Valflon® paint.

The $15 million Applied Science Center at Ventura College in Ventura, Calif., brings needed technology-centered learning to the community. Designed with an industrial feel,Dri-Design Tapered and Perforated Panels create the desired look while adding excitement to the campus.

For nearly 50 years, Duranar® coatings by PPG have protected and beautified famous structures such as the Louvre Pyramid, so it is fitting that the product was specified on 432 Park Avenue in New York, which opened in 2016 as the tallest residential tower in the world.

The renovation and expansion of the Apollo Career Center in Lima, Ohio, was necessary because of steady student body growth since the facility opened in the 1970s. Metl-Span insulated metal panels were an important component in updating the look of the facility and helped the project apply for LEED Gold status.

As part of a fast-track $88 million renovation that transforms the WakeMed North Hospital into a full-service hospital, the WakeMed Central Energy Plant in Raleigh, NC - featuring metal products from CENTRIA - serves an important role as the electric and HVAC heart of the healthcare campus.

The Holy Resurrection Chapel, located in The Gardens at Gethsemane in West Roxbury, MA, offers a place where Orthodox families can observe and practice the customs and traditions of the Orthodox community. Fittingly, the chapel's design incorporates RHEINZINK titanium zinc roofing from RHEINZINK America Inc., a material with a rich, historical tradition of its own.

The design of the new Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Ill., has caught the attention of media across the country.Created by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne Gang, FAIA, the 36,000 sq. ft., $28 million building, which includes metal PAC-CLAD products donated by Petersen, features a 250-seat main theatre that was purposefully designed to maintain Writers Theatre’s hallmark intimacy.

One step into his residential hangar and it’s easy to see that Harlan Rohner really values his leisure time. A quintessential man on the go, Rohner's Willmar, MN hangar includes snowmobiles, boats, ATVs and vehicles, along with his Kitfox experimental airplane and his Enstrom 280FX Shark helicopter. Access to this impressive array of toys is made easy with a custom hydraulic door from Schweiss Doors.

The building blocks of success are built on strong relationships, and so is Marvin Ramer’s new home. When the owner of Ramco Supply in Indiana set out to build a new home, he tapped into his network to make it happen. A veteran in the business, he knew he wanted his new home to don a metal roof. The system he chose features a long-lasting paint finish by Valspar.

The office building at 2165 Spring St. in Long Beach, CA is ready for occupants with updated interior spaces and an attention-grabbing exterior. Dri-Design Tapered Series Panels were integral to creating a new image for the building and adding dimension to the exterior.